Home Health & Hospice Week

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Hospice Study's Findings On Dementia Patients' Care Surprises UC Researchers

A new study’s title shows what hospices have known all along — “Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life.” “Proxies of people living with dementia enrolled in hospice compared with proxies of those not enrolled more often reported care to be excellent (predicted probability: 52 percent versus 41 percent), more often reported [...]
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